Month: April 2013
Streetsblog LA
Is Federal Bike Lane Guidance Working in Your City?
Do you design bike infrastructure for a city, as either staff or a consultant? If so, Bikes Belong’s Green Lane Project wants to hear from you.
April 17, 2013
Introducing the Long Beach “Ciclovía”
For readers and Long Beachers alike, they have known of my dream to bring a ciclovía to our city, my dream of shutting down a large stretch of street to make way for cyclists and skaters, walkers and runners.
April 17, 2013
Sparks Fly as Lawmaker Grills LaHood on Columbia River Crossing Transit
From the beginning of today’s hearing, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee made it clear they weren’t going to let Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s last appearance before them be an easy one. While the hearing's purpose was to examine the department's budget request, the tough questions LaHood fielded on the budget were nothing compared to the fight one lawmaker picked about the Columbia River Crossing.
April 17, 2013
Transport U: Colleges Save Millions By Embracing Policies to Reduce Driving
Jeffrey Tumlin was managing transportation programs at Stanford in the mid-1990s, when he made an important finding: It was cheaper for the university to pay people not to drive than to build new parking structures.
April 17, 2013
Riding to CicLAvia from South L.A.? We’ve Got Four Feeder Rides for You!
When a week starts off with senseless acts of violence like those seen in Boston, it feels a little frivolous to prattle on about less serious subjects. That said, in its defense, CicLAvia is not as frivolous as it might seem on the surface. In the name of fun, health, good neighborships, and more livable cities, with each iteration, it manages to seamlessly bring together more and more people from all races and classes in what can otherwise be a very segregated city.
April 16, 2013
Port of Long Beach Harbor Commissioners, Despite Benefits to Port, Back Appeal of SCIG
In a show of solidarity for the city's choice to formally appeal the proposed Southern California International (SCIG) railyard, the Port of Long Beach (POLB) Board of Harbor Commissioners unanimously voted to back the appeal despite holding a large amount of business benefits should the project move forward.
April 16, 2013
Thwart Terrorism. Experience CicLAvia. Meet Your Neighbors.
Yesterday's news out of Boston rattled me.
April 16, 2013
A Better Way to Grade City Transportation Systems
How should we grade America's transportation systems?
April 16, 2013